Royalty category: 1453 books
Killers of the King
The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
On August 18, 1648, with no relief from the siege in sight, the royalist garrison holding Colchester Castle surrendered and Oliver Cromwell's army firmly ended the rule of Charles I of England. To send a clear message to the fallen monarch, the rebels executed four of the senior officers captured...
Eleanor of Aquitaine
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1991
"Marion Meade has told the story of Eleanor, wild, devious, from a thoroughly historical but different point of view: a woman's point of view."-Allene Talmey, Vogue.
by Hourly History
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
The Queen of Great Britain and Ireland for 63 years, the mother of nine children and grandmother to 42, Queen Victoria's life was one of magnificent proportions. Victoria's childhood was difficult and lonely but from the time she took the throne aged just eighteen she blossomed into a powerful woman,...
Death and the Virgin Queen
Elizabeth I and the Dark Scandal That Rocked the Throne
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
In the tradition of Alison Weir's New York Times bestselling Mary, Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley, comes the most sensational crime story of Tudor England.
On the morning of September 8, 1560, at the isolated manor of Cunmor place, the body of a young woman was found at the bottom...
by Hector Bolitho
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
On 10 February 1840 a young Queen formed a union that would define an age.
Victoria and Albert charts the passionate relationship of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and examines how their loving and forward-thinking union propelled Britain into a golden age of innovation, conquest and social...
by Dickie & Lynne Arbiter & Barrett-Lee
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
In this honest and entertaining book, Dickie Arbiter recounts his life's journey from a broadcast journalist to becoming a press spokesman to the Royal family, and back again to journalism. He discusses the inner workings of everyday life in Buckingham Palace, and what it was really like to work under...
by Jean Sasson
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
For the first time, the New York Times bestselling PRINCESS books are available in one ebook.IT ALL BEGAN WITH PRINCESS, called "Absolutely riveting..." by People Magazine.The first book in this nonfiction trilogy describes the true life of Princess Sultana, a princess in the royal house of Saudi Arabia...
My Husband and I
The Inside Story of 70 Years of the Royal Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
With interest in the royal couple at a new peak thanks to the hit TV series The Crown, Ingrid Seward reveals the real story of the marriage of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip.
When a young Princess Elizabeth met and fell in love with the dashing Naval Lieutenant Prince Philip of Greece and...
The Woman Before Wallis
Prince Edward, the Parisian Courtesan, and the Perfect Murder
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
From the glittering dance halls of Paris during World War I to the maisons de rendezvous, luxurious châteaus in the French countryside, The Woman Before Wallis recounts the untold story of Prince Edward's tempestuous affair with a Parisian courtesan and the scandalous aftermath that has remained...
by Alison Weir
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Alison Weir's Mary Boleyn.
Handsome, accomplished, and charming, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, staked his claim to the English throne by marrying Mary Stuart, who herself claimed to be the Queen of England. It was not long before Mary discovered that...
King, Kaiser, Tsar
Three Royal Cousins Who Led the World to War
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
The extraordinary family story of George V, Wilhelm II, and Nicholas II: they were tied to one another by history, and history would ultimately tear them apart.
Drawing widely on previously unpublished royal letters and diaries, made public for the first time by Queen Elizabeth II, Catrine...
by Carolly Erickson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
In this remarkable biography, Carolly Erickson brings Elizabeth I to life and allows us to see her as a living, breathing, elegant, flirtatious, diplomatic, violent, arrogant, and outrageous woman who commands our attention, fascination, and awe.
With the special skill for which she is acclaimed,...
The Queen's Speech
An Intimate Portrait of the Queen in her Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
On 21 April 2016, Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-serving monarch in British history, celebrated her 90th birthday. During her 64 years on the throne, few have got to know her well, but there is one body of work that sheds new light on her thoughts, personality and the issues that really concern her:...
Mary Boleyn: The True Story of Henry VIII's Favourite Mistress
The True Story of Henry VIII's Favourite Mistress
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
Mary Boleyn, the infamous other Boleyn girl, began her court career as the mistress of the king of France. François I of France would later call her The Great Prostitute and the slur stuck.
The bête-noir of her family, Mary was married off to a minor courtier but it was not long before she caught...